The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-26
CROPS AND TRADE.
Chicago Crop Summary Shows
Pastures Much Benefited by
Recent Rains
Corn Too Far Gone to Do Any Good
Inside Points Of the Whisky
Trust.
A Great strawboard Monopoly Formed
Considerable Advance in Californis
Canned Fruit.

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Considerable Advances in Californis
Canned Fruit.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2a-The following cro]
summary appears IN this weeks issue o
4, the Farmers Revier:
Our reports do not indicate any materia
change In the condition of the corn crop il
! the different States as a result Of the re
freshing rains. Corn on high and dry land.
was too for gone to be recupersted by rains
but low lying and late planted fields have
been somewhat helped. These, however
are not Of sufficient acreage to affect to any
appreciable degree tho general aver
age OF condition. Dakota alone re
ports the condition of the crop above
the average. The average yield Of win
ter wheat in the different States, as shown
by these returns from our crop report, is
rs follows: twenty-five Illinois counties
1874 bushels; IA Wisconsin counties, IA 81
bushels; II Ohio counties, Is g. n bushels
- Missouri counties, 20 Is bushels;S
Michigan counties, 1875 bushels: Ken
lucky counties, 10 bushels; Is Kansas cOun
ties, IL rs bushels, and IL Indiana counties
"A is bushels.
The average yield Of spring wheat in the
different States il as follows: Fourteen
counties in Iowa, Il bushels; IA counties
in Dakota, 10 bushels; counties in Min.
nesota, W bushels, and Is counties in Ne
braska, n S-l3 bushels.
The average yield Of oats in the different
States, a. shown by threshing returns from
our report, is As follows: Twenty-six Illi-
nois counties, 81 bushels; Wisconsin, 81 3 l6
bushels; II Ohio counties, 81 rs bushels; II
Ohio counties, 81 rs bushels; IL Michigan
counties, q bushels; z Kentucky counties.
"A IS bushels; II Kansas counties, 2515
bushels; 10 Indiana counties, "a IS bushels
% Iowa counties, 3SI4 bushels; IL Dakota
counties, 81 gil bushels; Q Minnesota coun-
tics, 80 bushels, and II Nebraska counties,
81 bushels.
Tho recent rains have much refreshed
and :2vigOrated pastures. and q fair supply
Of fall feed is now anticipated. Potatoes
generally are turning out poor crop, on
account Of drought, but late varieties have
been helped by the rains. The apple crop
will be generally light in the West. Cattle
are beginning to pick up in condition, and
are reported in good health as q rule.
The average condition Of the corn crop in
the States reporting is as follows: Twenty
six counties in Illinois report the average
condition Of the crop 50.4 per cent; IL
counties in Wisconsin, 500 per cent; 10
counties in Ohio, 695; II counties in Mis-
souri,, 63 per cont 10 counties IN Michigan,
ass per cent; counties in Kentucky, So
per cont; Is counties in Kansas, 4O7 per
cent; counties in Indiana, 4S per cent !;
19counties in Iowa, 81 per cent; Is counties
in Dakota, 125 per ce1t; 10 counties in Min
nesOta, 795 per cent; and IL counties in Ne
braska, roper cant.
THE WHISKY TRUST.
CHICAGO, Aug. GA special from Peoria
says: A prominent distiller here gave some
further particulars yesterday Of the great
whisky trust recently organized at this
place. He said: 1T is to be run the Same
as the Standard Oil Company's cottonseed
and oil trust. In the first place, the dis
tlllcr puts q valuation upon his Louise, then
a committee is appointed to examine into
it. After mans distillery has been ap-
praised, the owner turns it over to these
nine trustees for their use for twenty five
years, and receives IN lieu thereof trust
certificates. In some instances he receives
g in certificates for 81 Of valuation. After
q man turns his property over to the trust
ees he ceases to operate it. 1t is the inten-
ton of the trust to regulate the production
of whisky SO that these certificates will
pay from six to ten per cent. The capital
Of the trust is pretty well up in the mil
lions, Some say as high as S4O,OOO,OO0. Yes
terday all the employees in the houses
that are in the trust were told that
they must look for their wages to
the trust, rs they were no longer
working for individuals. Wages will prob
ry h,
cent. at once. The object of the trust,
whose headquarters are in Peoria, is to
convince the distillers that whisky can DO
made cheaper in Peoria than anywhere
else. 1t is supposed by some members Of
the organization that it will tend to largo
amount Of illicit distilIatiOn and traffic in
whisky, as it is the aim Of the trust to put
the prices up SO high thst it will in reality
be bid for smuggling.
sTRAwDOARD MONOPOLY.
AKRON, o., Aug. 23.-The Union Straw
board Company of the United States. an
organization Of strawboard manufacturers,
who produce about ninety-fve per cent. OF
the product Of the country, have just made
Q deal which will result in the formation OF
the strongest trusts IN the land. The an
was made here to-day that the
Akron strawboard works. which employ
$50 men and adds nearly $2510OO year to
the wealth Of the town and surrounding |
ha6 sold out to the Union Straw: |
board Company and was to DO shut |
down indefinitely. Information was |
obtained in the same connection that tho |
syndicate had also bought out seven other |
strawbOard plants. The members Of tho |
syndicate argue that this move will pre- |
vent over-producti0n and will permit the |
Of the remaining seventeen mills
the year round. They argue further that
under the combinations management
can 6e made cheaper than
over. The mills which remain idle are the |
best equipped in the country.
CANNED GOODS.
SAN Francisco, Aug. 22.-There is in
,ense excitement in California canned
goods circles, and prices are rapidly ad.
last week having seen an advance
II from fifteen to twenty-five per cent. in
peaches, pears and plums. The demand
rom Eastern States is unprecedented, and
t is not q question Of price with buyers.
Gamers dictate their own prices and
It the advance the demand is materially
esened. They can not hope to supply the
'rders by pressing the facilities OF their can.
leries to their full capacity day and night
As long as the fruit season lasts every can
lery in the State Is running at its full
apaclty. Thursday OF this week one COM
amy refused an order Of twenty carloads
4 canned fruit, and another company
tates that two cases for every one packed
will not supply the demand on them.
A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK.
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 2.-Reports on tho
0rn crop in Nebraska Indicate no radical
hange, though on the whole the outlook is
Fighter and the indications are that Nc